[18] Dr. Russel, who analysed the water about 1733, says that it had a taste of iron and (unless mixed with common water) was apt to make the drinker giddy or sleepy. This was the experience of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who, however, expatiates on the benefit she had derived from the Spa. [19] This was between the main part of the Spa gardens and St. John’s Street Road; cp. Wallis’s _Plan_, 1808. [20] A band had played in the morning under Holland’s management (advertisement in the _Public Advertiser_, 5 May, 1775). [21] Malcolm, _Lond. rediv._ iii. 230, 231. [22] The orchestra connected with it was pulled down in 1827; Cromwell’s _Clerkenwell_, p. 357. [23] No. 6, Eliza Place, stood on the site of the old entrance (Pinks). [24] Mr. Philip Norman, writing in _Notes and Queries_, 8th ser. vi. 1894, p. 457, says:--“I have seen (in the cellar of No. 6, Spa Cottages, behind the house at the corner of Lloyd’s Row) grotto work with stone pilasters and on each side steps descending. Here, I believe, was the chalybeate spring. For many years it has ceased to flow.” [25] _Daily Telegraph_, 1 August, 1895. [26] A newspaper paragraph of April 1752, mentions the little summer house at the Ducking Pond House in Spa Fields, as being lately stripped of its chairs and tables by some pitiful rogues. [27] In _The Macaroni and Theatrical Magazine_ for January 1773 (p. 162) is the notice:-- “Pantheons: The _Nobility’s_, Oxford Road; the _Mobility’s_, Spawfields.” [28] The organ appears, about 1772, to have been silenced on Sundays, at least for a time. A correspondent in _The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser_ for 20 June, 1772, refers to the Middlesex Justices who will not suffer the organs to be played at the Little Pantheon, White Conduit House, Bagnigge Wells, &c. [29] _May Day, or the Origin of Garlands_, a poem published in 1720. _The Field Spy_, published in 1714 (Rogers, _Views of Pleasure Gardens of London_, p. 46), speaks of the spring and garden as if a good deal frequented in 1714. [30] A rare bronze ticket of oblong form, incised with the words, “London Spaw No. 19,” is in the possession of Mr. W. T. Ready, the London coin dealer. It may belong to about the middle of the last century. [31] Rosoman Street was called after Mr. Rosoman, who about 1756 built the west side, which was then called Rosoman Row. Rosoman, who acted at the New Wells in 1744, was the well-known proprietor of Sadler’s Wells. Pinks (_Clerkenwell_) states that the houses numbered (in his time) 5 to 8 occupied the site of the Wells. [32] The New Wells seem to have been already established in 1737. The earliest advertisement quoted in Pinks is of 1738, but there are earlier advertisements (W. Coll.), May to August 1737, in one of which reference is made to the alterations in the theatre that season. [33] _Daily Post_, 3 July, 1742 (quoted in _Gent. Mag._ 1813, pt. ii. p. 561). [34] Doran’s _London in Jacobite Times_, ii. pp. 148, 149.